Description of
holotype
(ZMSBUK 712).
A medium sized spider gecko of SVL
63.7 mm
and tail
54 mm
in length. Large postmental scales are arranged between the mental and gular scales. Supralabials 16; infralabials 12; three nasal scales in contact with the rostrum and first supralabial scale; rostral scale divided. Tubercles are sharply distinguished from surrounding scales; one row of scales under the fingers and toes; two precloacal pores; tail segmented, each segment comprising five whorls of scales; distalmost whorl with larger scales; subcaudal scales heterogenous and comprising alternating divided and undivided scales. Dorsal color is light brown with a series of five transverse dark brown bands from the occiput to the pelvic region (
Fig. 2
). There are nine bands on the dorsal surface of the tail.
Paratype
variation
Female
paratypes
do not have any precloacal pores, but the male
paratype
has two precloacal pores. The coloration of the
paratypes
differs, with both females having a darker background color than the male. Several scale counts in the male specimen show noteworthy differences from females, such as number of scales in widest part of abdomen and number of interorbital scales.
Remarks.
The newly described species was collected from the southern and central part of
Kerman Province
at the border of the Zagros Mountains. The habitat of the new species is characterized by xeric climate, with the ground covered with small rocks (
Fig. 5
) and scattered small shrubs.
Artiplex,
a plant species with a height of approximately
1 m
, was sparsely distributed in the habitat, whereas
Artemisia
was common. As we found
Agamura kermanensissp. nov.
in southern
Kerman
, it can be assumed that the species’ distribution is limited to the southern part of Mount Hazar, and restricted to the south and east by the Jazmourian Depression. The other two species of
Agamura
(
A. persica
and
A. cruralis
) have wide distributional ranges in the Central Plateau and eastern
Iran
, but the new species is known only from
Kerman Province
.